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Anna Wierzbicka

1938 - Today

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Anna Wierzbicka [ˈanna vʲɛʐˈbʲitska] (born 10 March 1938 in Warsaw) is a Polish linguist who is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, Canberra. Brought up in Poland, she graduated from Warsaw University and emigrated to Australia in 1972, where she has lived since. With over twenty published books, many of which have been translated into other languages, she is a prolific writer. Wierzbicka is known for her work in semantics, pragmatics and cross-cultural linguistics, especially for the natural semantic metalanguage and the concept of semantic primes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Wierzbicka is the 2,470th most popular religious figure (down from 2,174th in 2019), the 831st most popular biography from Poland (down from 767th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Anna Wierzbicka ranks 2,470 out of 3,187. Before her are Talgat Tadzhuddin, Secundus of Asti, Sergius II of Constantinople, Jean de Brébeuf, Stanislaus Papczyński, and Antony I of Constantinople. After her are Horus Sa, Konrad von Preysing, Saint Amun, Francesco Colasuonno, Chibly Langlois, and Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Anna Wierzbicka ranks 315. Before her are Holger Czukay, Andrey Lukanov, Leonardo Favio, Susan Strasberg, Peter Snell, and Werner Olk. After her are Clement Quartey, Charles Starkweather, James Gunn, Leonid Zhabotinsky, Hermann Huppen, and Boris Melnikov.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Anna Wierzbicka ranks 831 out of 1,694. Before her are Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Werner Olk (1938), Alfred Stock (1876), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), Duchess Agnes of Württemberg (1835), and Stanislaus Papczyński (1631). After her are Paweł Strzelecki (1797), Jakub Błaszczykowski (1985), Ulli Lommel (1944), Wacław of Szamotuły (1520), Heinz Hopf (1894), and Henry, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen (1778).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Anna Wierzbicka ranks 44. Before her are Michał Sopoćko (1888), Johann Dzierzon (1811), Konrad Krajewski (1963), Ida Siekmann (1902), Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389), and Stanislaus Papczyński (1631). After her are Zacharias Ursinus (1534), Marek Jędraszewski (1949), Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845), Frederick Jagiellon (1468), Jakub Wujek (1541), and Sawa (1938).

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